any tool to help configure bonding?

[Thomas Fess]

All,

Here is a script I wrote.  No Support offered, but it works great.
just cut-n-paste into vi

vi nicBonding.sh

#!/bin/bash

#####################################################################
################### DFEZZ1 Admin Scripts ############################
################### Must know your IP - Subnet and Network ##########
#####################################################################

chdir="/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts"
tmpdir="/tmp/"
touch $chdir/ifcfg-bond0

echo -n "Enter 1st ethernet NIC  \"ethX\" "
read ethX
echo -n "Enter 2nd ethernet NIC  \"ethY\" "
read ethY
echo -n "Enter Prod IP address   \"prodIP\" "
read prodIP
echo -n "Enter Prod Network IP example 192.168.1.0 \"prodNET\" "
read prodNET
echo -n "Enter Prod Gateway IP   \"prodGW\" "
read prodGW

cp $chdir/ifcfg-$ethX $tmpdir/ifcfg-$ethX_orig
cp $chdir/ifcfg-$ethY $tmpdir/ifcfg-$ethY_orig

cat > $chdir/ifcfg-bond0 << EOF
DEVICE=bond0
IPADDR=$prodIP
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=$prodNET
NETWORKING_IPV6=no
GATEWAY=$prodGW
USERCTL=no
BOOTPROTO=none
ONBOOT=yes
EOF
cat > $chdir/ifcfg-$ethX << EOF
DEVICE=$ethX
ONBOOT=yes
USERCTL=no
MASTER=bond0
SLAVE=yes
BOOTPROTO=none
TYPE=Ethernet
EOF
cat > $chdir/ifcfg-$ethY << EOF
DEVICE=$ethY
USERCTL=no
ONBOOT=yes
MASTER=bond0
SLAVE=yes
BOOTPROTO=none
TYPE=Ethernet
EOF

cat >> /etc/modprobe.conf << EOF
alias bond0 bonding
options bond0 mode=balance-alb miimon=1000
EOF

cat > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/route-bond0 << EOF
GATEWAY0=$prodGW
NETMASK0=255.255.255.0
ADDRESS0=$prodNET
EOF

echo -n "Run ... service network restart ... and the bonding will take effect"

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--- On Tue, 2/24/09, ESGLinux <esggrupos at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: ESGLinux <esggrupos at gmail.com>
> Subject: any tool to help configure bonding?
> To: "General Red Hat Linux discussion list" <redhat-list at redhat.com>
> Date: Tuesday, February 24, 2009, 11:28 AM
> Hi all,
> 
> Im trying to configure 2 ethernet cards to use bonding to
> increase the
> throughput.
> 
> I´m using /usr/share/doc/iputils-20020927/README.bonding
> to learn how to do
> it, but I have a question
> 
> With system-config-network is it posible to do it? or I
> have to manually
> edit the files in /etc/sysconfig/
> 
> Thanks
> 
> ESG
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